It takes a whole community to raise a child

Try looking in the monthly archives. November 2018

We all enjoyed our fantastic Reading Evening which was organised by the staff and PTFA of Armathwaite School. We listened spell- bound as the teachers read a range of fantastic story books and shared lots of interesting and exciting picture books, poems and story sacks.picture books, poems and story sacks.There was literature available with tips […]

In learning assembly we’ve been talking about how we learn. This is the introduction to our focus on becoming effective learners. The more we know about learning and develop awareness of how we learn the more powerful our learning will become. When we discuss and think together we learn from each other. Here are a […]

Years 5 and 6 really enjoyed the great opportunity offered by this year’s Into Film festival. We all went to Rheged on Monday morning to enjoy a screening of ‘Wonder’. We are currently reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio as our class book. The themes of the film and book are really powerful; focusing on […]

Years 5 and 6 had a fantastic time at the Kendal Mountain Festival. As well as seeing some inspirational adventure films, we were treated to an exciting (and at times explosive!) science and nature presentation about jungles, oceans, volcanoes and glaciers from adventurer and scientist, Huw James. Then we enjoyed listening to Robert Macfarlane […]

Pudsey came to visit us for Children in Need. It was so exciting! We decided to all come to school in our brightest clothes! We made an enormous Pudsey and decided we would all bring coins to surround him. Sebby drew our giant Pudsey and Abigail helped him. Lots of people used oil pastels to […]

In Reception and Year 1 we have been finding out about our amazing bodies. We have looked at our bones, organs and teeth. We have had great fun looking at animal skulls, the ” Organ Apron ” and practising brushing our teeth. We developed lots of scientific skills by asking questions and looking carefully […]

It was fantastic to get back to the woods. We enjoyed looking at what had changed since we were last here in the summer and checking out all our favourite spots. Our new reception children loved exploring our special place and soon found favourite places of their own. Tree-climbing, mud-sliding and den-building were the favourite […]

Year 5 and 6 children have had a close encounter with some special visitors! Mrs Hepworth brought her pet stick insects into school for us to observe as part of our Living Things Science topic. We spent time carefully observing the stick insects and then carried out our own research finding out lots […]

We were absolutely thrilled to have been accredited with the Gold P4C School Award .We were the first school in the North West and only the fifth school in the country to receive the award. You can read a copy of the report here.